It all - probably - started because I installed Azure SDK .NET 2.9 to begin with, whereas my company's projects are still based on 2.7. When I installed 2.7, the project creation was failing because of an incompatibility between 2.7 and 2.9. I followed the steps advised on stackoverflow.
My issue is the following one: I added a Web Role into a new Azure Cloud Service template:
The following NuGet packages could not be installed in project Slip:
Microsfot.WindowsAzure.Caching (version 'unknown'): Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: path1
WindowsAzure.Storage (version 'unknown'): Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: path1
If I click on Ok, it then says:
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage, Version 5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken-...' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
I can then still add the dependency manually and try to start the web role locally but it says:
Failed to locate the Microsoft Azure SDK. Please make sure the Microsoft Azure SDK v2.7 is installed.
The SDK is there otherwise I could not have created the project in the first place, but maybe a part is missing ?
I tried both with VS 2013 and 2015.
